In a double whammy for working parents, last week finance minister Lindsay Tanner indicated that paid maternity leave was in doubt as ABC Learning childcare centres went into voluntary administration.
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Palm Island Aboriginal man Lex Wotton was sentenced to six years鈥 jail for 鈥渞iot with destruction鈥 on November 7 鈥 just four days after 22 police officers received 鈥渂ravery awards鈥 for their role in the 2004 Palm Island protests.
Activists have planned a civil disobedience action in response to anti-democratic moves by the City of Sydney to crack down on bill posters. From November 10, putting up posters on street poles could result in fines ranging from $320 to $1500 per poster.
Abolish the prisons!
We think GLW's front page headline about Lex Wotton, "Jail cops that kill" (GLW #773) gives a wrong message. We want to draw attention to a radical position challenging the power of the state in the criminal justice
First came two British soldiers, decked out in desert battle dress, leading a pair of Irish wolfhounds.
The Sydney Stop the War Coalition has described the US people聮s rejection of President George Bush聮s war policies and the election of Barack Obama as 聯historic聰.
John McCarthy, a veteran socialist and Queensland doctor, died at home on November 1 after a long struggle with cancer.
Despite Western media and politicians having largely ignored a decade of genocidal warfare that has cost 6 million lives, the recent upsurge in fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has drawn not only media attention, but visits to the region by the British and French foreign ministers and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
Machinists, represented by the Industrial Association of Machinists (IAM), at Boeing plants in the US voted on November 1 to end a 57-day strike and accept a new contract offer.
The article below has been translated by Federico Fuentes for 91自拍论坛 Weekly from the November edition of Latin America-wide publication America XXI, and is reprinted with permission.
People all over the world have waited for the end of the hated far-right-wing administration of US President George Bush and his Vice-President Dick Cheney.
However, what will an Obama presidency bring with it? US Socialist Worker held a round table with a range of activists and left-wing authors on this topic. Below are some heavily abridged excerpts of some contributions. All contributions, in full, can be found at .
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